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Updated: May 8, 2025
The faults, weaknesses, and venality of the Government call for publicity, but I'm afraid the journalist might soon find himself in prison. You can do nothing. The fault is in this damned climate la fièvre du corail.
Aristotle, in later times, makes it an objection to the ephoral government that poor men were chosen ephors, and that their venality arose from their indigence a moral proof that poverty in Sparta must have been more common than has generally been supposed ; men of property would not have chosen their judges and dictators in paupers.
Internal condition of Spain Character of the people Influence of the Inquisition Population and Revenue Incomes of Church and Government Degradation of Labour Expulsion of the Moors and its consequences Venality the special characteristic of Spanish polity Maxims of the foreign polity of Spain The Spanish army and navy Insolvent state of the Government The Duke of Lerma His position in the State Origin of his power System of bribery and trafficking Philip III. His character Domestic life of the king and queen.
They commonly show neither an extensive nor a profound knowledge of the country which they are supposed to govern, and seem always to have a fair amount of leisure time at their disposal. Besides the unavoidable evils of excessive centralisation, Russia has had to suffer much from the jobbery, venality, and extortion of the officials.
The other great lords, highborn and highly titled as they were and served at their banquets by hosts of lackeys on their knees Nottinghams, Northamptons, Suffolks were, after all, ciphers or at best, mere pensioners of Spain. For all the venality of Europe was not confined to the Continent.
Learned dissertations upon colonization are useful only to the politician, and so much venality has prevailed among those who have thrust themselves forward in the cause of Canadian settlement, that the public become a little alarmed when they hear of a work expressly designed for the emigrant. The very best informed at home, and the haute noblesse, have been repeatedly taken in.
And, moreover, nobody was angered by this venality; it merely gave rise to malicious witticisms; and the fans continued waving in the increasing heat, and the ladies quivered with contentment as the whispered pleasantries took wing and fluttered over their bare shoulders. "Oh! how pleased the Contessina must be!" Pierre resumed.
Even one who is acquainted with the venality and unscrupulousness of Russian officers cannot form a correct idea of how this business is conducted.
They will never do in a country where the personal element still counts for something." "The personal element signifying favouritism and venality?" asked Eames. "A pretty state of affairs!" "The philosopher can only live under a venal government." "I disagree with you altogether." "You always disagree with me," answered Keith. "And you always find yourself in the wrong.
Where venality and corruption blind and bias justice and judgment, and intimidation perverts its ends, the stage seizes the sword and scales and pronounces a terrible verdict on vice. The fields of fancy and of history are open to the stage; great criminals of the past live over again in the drama, and thus benefit an indignant posterity.
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